Body modification fan Ted Richards loves his pet parrots so much he has nearly turned himself into one.

Appearing on the Jeremy Kyle show the parrot lover from Bristol - who has even had his ears cut off - admitted that he would have surgery on his eyes if it meant he could look more like the exotic animal.

After showing off the colourful birds to the host backstage, Jeremy asked him: "Do you want to look like a parrot?"

Ted is hoping to get surgery to have his nose shaped like a beak (Image: ITV)

Ted loves his pet animals so much he wants to become one (Image: ITV)

"Obviously I'm not going to look exactly like them. They have their eyes on the side of their head.

"But if I could have my eyes moved I would."

Ted, 57, had the outer parts of his ears removed in a six-hour operation by a surgeon in an attempt to appear more like his pets: "I didn't like them. I love body modification."

The Parrot Man (Image: ITV)

Jeremy showed a picture of how Ted looked before his transformation (Image: ITV)

As well as the ear surgery the animal lover's bizarre transformation includes subdermal star implants in his head, horns that he screws into his head as well as multiple piercings and over 100 tattoos.

Showing off extra pins at the side of his head to Jeremy, Ted explained that he'd thought of everything after having his ears removed because as a glasses wearer he needed somewhere to balance his spectacles.

Ted and girlfriend Suzannah (Image: ITV)

Ted knew he'd always been different and before he met his girlfriend Suzannah - who is also a body modification fan - he saw his parrots, Elliem, Teaka, Temineh, Jake and Bubi as the closest thing to family.

"Before I was with Suzannah I was with nobody, and to me they were my children. They even sleep in my bed."

Suzannah, who has her tongue split like a snake, said that she wasn't worried about Ted going too far insisting that if you were nice to people they couldn't judge you.

Host Jeremy admitted that despite initially thinking he was "weird" he could tell he was genuinely happy with his life.